[R] variables inside an Rdi-select statement?!

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Stephan Holl wrote:

> Dear R-users,
>
> I would like to use an environment variable inside an SELECT-statement
> from R to a postgres-db, but it will not work and so I need some advice
> from you.
> <code>
> ezg <- Sys.getenv("EZG")
> connect <- dbConnect.PgSQL(host="localhost", user="username",
> dbname="dbname")
> query <-  dbSendQuery(connect, "SELECT ezg.s FROM ezg  WHERE
> ezg.s!='12'")
> </code>
> the error is, that SELECT searches for the relation ezg, but it should
> use value stored in ezg.

In short, it did what you asked it to, which is not an error.

Use paste() to assemble the string you want to pass.  Nothing you did
tells R that `ezg' in the last line is a reference to an R variable.  I'd
give you an example except I don't see the point of your SQL.  I think you
may mean

paste("SELECT s FROM", ezg, "WHERE s!='12'")


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